THE COMMUNIST Seven Party e of gather the international revolutionary pro Criticism of the Program and Constitution of the industrial unions such as the and state, using the legislative forum to interpret kindred organizations are also conservative. The and emphasize the class struggle; they shall Communist Party will encourage all movements make clear how parliamentarism and parliamen of the workers in the shops and industries but tary democracy deceive the workers; and they will constantly criticize the limitations of the shall analyze capitalist legislative proposals and economic organizations and point out their in(Continued from page 1)
reform palliatives as evasions of the issue and ability to train and mobilize the workers for the which are unattainable by the working people, as of no fundamental significance to the work. proletarian revolution.
the proletarians and semi proletarians, while the ing class.
1) The Communist Party shall criticize the bourgeoisie utilizes its machinery to deceive and 1) The uncompromising character of the priicnples, tactics and leaders of trade and indefraud the workers through its press, pulpit, class struggle must be maintained under all dustrial organizations which do not accept the schools, etc.
circumstances. The Communist Party according basic principles and policies of the Communist Bourgeois democracy, with its parliamentary ly, in all its activities, shall not co operate with International.
system, defrauds the masses of participation in groups or parties not committed to the principles m) The Communist Party shall wage an ag.
the administration of the state. Actually, the and policies of the Communist International. gressive campaign against the socail patriotic masses and their organizations are totally deg) The Communist Party shall enter into and reform parties, such as the Socialist Party prived of real state administration. In the all the struggles of the working class to spread and the Sociailst Labor Party expose their pure.
Workers Government the proletarian dictatorCommunist understanding among them, to guide ly reformistic character, their petty bourgeois ship in the form of the Soviet Governmenttheir economic strikes into broader political chan principles and policies and their counter revoluthe organizations of the masses dominate and nels, to develop their will and determination to tionary tendencies.
through them the masses themselves administer.
overthrow the existing order and finally, lead n) Tlie Communist Party shall wage an ag.
Bourgeois democracy and the parliamentary systhem into open armed conflict with the capitalist ressive campaign against the Centrists (United tem separate the masses from the capitalist state.
Communist Party) exposing their leaders, their state by the division of legislative and execuh) The Communist Party shall participate lip service recognition of Communist principles tive power, by the toleration unrecallable in strikes, not so much to achieve the immediate and tactics and Centrist tendencies.
mandates In the Soviet Government, on the purpose of the strike as to develop the rev. o) The unorganized unskilled workers (incontrary, the rig of recall, the amalgamation olutionary implications.
cluding the agricultural proletaria) constitutes of the legislative and executive power, the 1) Every local, sub listrict and district or.
the bulk of the working class. The Communist function of the Soviets as working colleges, ganization of the Communist Party shall estabParty shall systematically propagate Communism unite the masses with the administrative organs.
lish contact with industrial units in its territory to these workers and link up their struggles This unity is also promoted by the fact that the shops, mills, factories and mines and with the class struggle of the workers as a under the Soviet Government the election them direct its agitation accordingly.
whole.
selves are conducted, not in accordance with j) Communist Party shop committes, consist p) The United States is developing an ag.
artificial territorial districts, but in accordance ing only of members of the Communist Party, gressive militarism. The Communist Party will with productive units. The proletarian dictatorshall be organized for the purpose of carrying wage the struggle against militarism as a phase ship in the form of the Soviet Government thus Communist propaganda and agitation to the of the class struggle to hasten the collapse of realizes true proletarian democracy, the demoworkers in the industries. These committes shall capitalism. Special Communist Committees shall crucr for and of the working class and against be united with each other and shall be under the be organized to carry Communist propaganda the bourgeoisie.
control and direction of the Communist Party, and agitation to the soldiers and sailors and to The proletaan revolution is a lengthy proso that the party shall have actual contact with for Communist organizations among them.
recs which begins with the destruction of the the workers.
q) The struggle against Imperialism, necesca. Itelist state. the establishment of the prolek) The Communist Party considers trade and sarily an international struggle, is the basis of tarian dictatorship and ends only with the trans.
industrial unions as a field for the propagation proletarian revolutionary action in this epoch.
formation of the capitalist system into the Comof Communism. While recognizing that the The Communist Party shall maintain close conmunist society of and similar organizations are reaction tact with the Communist International for comThe Communist International, ary and bulwarks of capitalism it recognizes that mon action against world Imperialism.
The Communist International, issuing directly out of the proletarian revolution in action, is letariat in their struggle for the conquest of world political power. Continued from page 5)
ficial party papers shall be published by the The growth of the revolutionary movement of the party.
in all countries, the menace of suppression of principles and tactics without effective protest This does not actually mean that the the proletarian revolution through the coalition from the membership. The would endorse any. of the published language papers. Not of the capitalist states, the attempts of the sothing, subscribe to everything just so long as at all. It only means that the official English cial patriotic parties to unite with each other they ould remain in control of the organization. organ is translated in the various languages ver(the formation of the yellow International at Such a group of unprincipled adventurers batin and published.
Berne. in order to render service to the Impeand charlatans could do nothing else but elect This stultifying policy is typical of the e. cire rialist League of Nations and to betray the a Central Executive Committee of ten members, conception of centralization of the revolution; and finally, the absolute necessity of five from one side and ive from the other. Even the For vagueness commend us to the folloring co ordinating proletarian action all over the ten alternates were apportioned so that a clause, dealing with language federations: world all these considerations demanded the LT alternate would take the place of a Section The of the party all formation of a real, revoutionary. Communist vacancy and vice versa.
annually call a national conference of the res.
International The only alternative to a of ten pective language groups by request of district The Communist International, which subor members, which was obviously a dead give away dinates the so called national Interests to the committees representing a majority of the lanof the whole gaine, was to split. And a split guage group.
interests of the international proletarian revoluat the unity convention meant immediate and tion, embodies the reciprocal aid of the proleta.
What is meant by a majority of language total political oblivion for all the leaders conriat of various countries. For the proletariat of cerned.
groups. Does it mean a majority of the memany nation will not be in a position to organize bers in those groups, a majority of the groups (4) Although the had learnt from the new society without economic and other mu in the branches or a majority of the branches?
the split in the Communist Party not to elect tual sesistance. On the other band, the CommunAnd what constitutes a majority of such a vague the secretary and ediors at the convention (we 1st International In contrast to the yellow enumeration? The then becomes the are inclined to believe that the deleBerne International supports the exploited colofinal arbiter and the annual language conference nial people in their struggles against Imeprialgates must have insisted on this point) they did may or may not be held.
elect their International Secretary and Internaism in order to accelerate the final collapse of Or, take the clause dealing with conventions.
ional Delegates at the convention.
the lunperialist system of the world.
It is a clear as mnd and expresses as much centThis The Communist International unites all the as we have learned does not ralization as the Committee of 48.
revolutionary forces. It wages war against Immake for centralization and discipline, but Section national convention shall be perialism, against the Berne International of so leads to the creation of contradictory authorities held annually at a time and place determined cial patriots and the Centrist parties and their. and in the case of dispute between the upon by the Central Executive Committee. The leaders who accept the proletarian revolution and and International Secretary and Delegates proletarian dictatorship in words but not in makes two separate bodies responsible to the may call emergency conventions when deeds.
convention just as Damon Co. maintained in requested by District committees representing a majority of the membership. In case the the recent unpleasantuess in the Communist ParThe Communist International issues its call does not act, district executive committees to the conscious proletariat for the final struggle ty. This clause belies their attempts at centralization and discipline.
may send delegates to a conference for the pur against capitalism. It is not a problem of immepose of calling the convention.
diate revolution. The revolutionary epoch may There are some other clauses in the constitution which are very vague and capable of misNot even the framers of this clause could last for years. The Communist International explain the process of calling an emergency conoffers a program both immediate and ultimate understanding. For instance, the clause on disvention on the basis of this clause.
in scope. The old order is in decay. The workcipline is very vague and unsatisfactory. What The heterogeneous elements constitutes a breach of discipline is not defined.
mechanically ers must prepare for the proletarian revolution fused in the on the basis of this proand the Communist reconstruction of society.
The clause on units of organization displays gram and constitution will nut long hold toThe Communist International calls: a very mechanical, bureaucratic conception of Arms gether.
organization. We shall quote Section 3, to illusOne revolt has already begun the Inagainst arms! Force against force!
trate what we mean: dustrial or Independent Communist Party, a basWorkers of the world unite!
tard offshot of the is even now in exisAll power to the workers. Section Xot more then ten groups shall tence. The real Communist elements, who left the Summary.
constitute a branch and not over ten branches a Communist Party due to misinformation, misrepThe Communist Party maintains that the section; not over ten sections a sub district, and resentation and lles, will return to the Commun.
class struggle is essentially a political struggle: not over ten sub districts a district. ist Part. The Centrist element will eventually that is, a struggle to conquer the power of the Another mechanical, bureaucratic attempt at unite with the Left elements of the and state, destroy the bourgeois state machinery by centralization is the clause dealing with the lan. blossom out as a real Centrist Party, without mass action culminatng in armed insurrection guage papers. We quote: any camontage with no underground pretenand civil war, and the establishment of the Section All language literature and of sions and an open organization.
dictatorship of the proletariat as the only means of introducing the Communist society.
2) The Communist Party shall keep in the foreground its consistent appeal for proletarian revolution, the overthrow of the capitalist state and the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat.
b) The Communist Party shall systematically and persistently propagate to the workers the 1dea of the inevitabilty of a violent revolution and the USE OF FORCE as the only means of overthrowing the capitalist state.
c) Participation in parliamentary campaigns which in the general struggle of the revolution is only of secondary importance, is for the purpose of revolutionary propaganda and agitation only.
d) Nominationes for public office and parti.
clpation in elections shall be limited to legis.
lative bodies only.
e) Parliaments and political democracy shall be utilized to assist in organizing the working class against capitalism and the state. Parlia mentery representatives all consitently expose REMEMBER!
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